HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080881150
Bassin de Río Mendoza
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 3 administrative regions : Calingasta, Las Heras, Luján de Cuyo
Sub-basin area
855,4km²
Upstream area
4 633,4km²
Discharge
41,85m³/s
Mean elev.
3 292m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Mendoza395 km²
- Bassin de Río Mendoza385 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 678.0 km²79.3% of basin
- 153.7 km²18.0% of basin
- 23.2 km²2.7% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Uspallata
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve of Defense
663.27 km² overlap
Cordon del Plata
IUCN IIProvincial Park
94.08 km² overlap
Manantiales
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve of Defense
1.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
202 distinct species · 1 571 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Mendoza : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 44 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
2,8°C
Annual rain
273mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
138mm/an
PET
879mm
AET
247mm
Mean slope
21,6°
Water table
967cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)